Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This music and dancing is an important part of our culture," says Reynoso, who is originally from the Dominican Republic...
...Michael S. Boyce '99, the low-income housing area was recently recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as "one of the six worst projects in the nation." Boyce also notes that although the area, which draws its population largely from the African American, Puerto Rican and Dominican minority communities, underwent large-scale drug sweeps five years ago, at the time some residents alleged that sweep arrests were racially motivated...
Late Saturday night, hundreds of college students were awakened by phone calls informing them that a coup had occurred in the Dominican Republic...
...event, which took nearly a year to plan, drew students from colleges and universities around the world for simulations of various United Nations committees, which dealt with everything from crafting legislation to handling crises such as the Dominican coup...
...seemed to Castro that signs of nonconformity and a search for new ideas were infecting the populace. Little by little, people were going back to church. So he spent 23 hours talking to a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto. The subsequent book, Fidel and Religion, became a national best seller. Here was the apostle of Marxism expounding on his Catholic upbringing and attitudes toward religion. He recalled his devout mother and his rigorous parochial education. He had been baptized and was taught biblical history and Catholic catechism. At his upper-class Jesuit high school he absorbed the determination and discipline...